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kenb Part of things Posts: 604	Small show but interesting vehicles.kenb @kenb
	Jun 11, 2012 14:59:03 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Although I've done one road run this year, most shows have been cancelled so far due to the weather. So it was a relief to finally get to one, and only around the corner at Fenland Airfield near Holbeach Lincs. The wonderful thing about living in a land that time generally bypasses, you do get some interesting stuff turn up. The airfield itself is celebrating 40 years of operation, but more interestingly it is next door to the site of what was probably the largest collection of classic cars in the country. Sadly now all gone bar a handful of vehicles. www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2716044/Any-old-iron-More-like-car-lovers-gold.html# Anyway enjoy some pics. Remnants of yard at the bottom. Afterwards I wandered around to the site of the old yard. Visitors are not welcome without permission by the way. Not much left, but these caught my eye.


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EmDee Club Retro Rides Member Committer of Autrocities. Posts: 5,920 Club RR Member Number: 108	Small show but interesting vehicles.EmDee @emdee Club Retro Rides Member 108
	Jun 11, 2012 15:27:41 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
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IDY Part of things Posts: 893	Small show but interesting vehicles.IDY @idy
	Jun 11, 2012 15:27:44 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jun 11, 2012 14:59:03 GMT kenb said: The airfield itself is celebrating 40 years of operation, but more interestingly it is next door to the site of what was probably the largest collection of classic cars in the country. Sadly now all gone bar a handful of vehicles. www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2716044/Any-old-iron-More-like-car-lovers-gold.html# I remember visiting that yard (probably a year or so before it closed), was fascinating to walk round. I was looking for turbos, John (?) kept trying to flog me jag engines - he had a barn full of them. I got chatting to him and he showed me round his mad daily Google could only find me this image of it According to the site I have pinched the pic from it is a 1972 Leyland FG350 chassis with a Commer TS3 two-stroke diesel engine Interesting looking show edit - in fact is that it hiding in the back of this pic?
	Last Edit: Jun 11, 2012 15:32:05 GMT by IDY I will get round to finishing it at some point

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Dez Club Retro Rides Member And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up. Posts: 11,712 Club RR Member Number: 34	Small show but interesting vehicles.Dez @dez Club Retro Rides Member 34
	Jun 11, 2012 15:31:07 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	i feel inadiquate i don't own a vehicle with its own vice and oxy equipment on-board.
	1928 Y-block powered ford model A sedan All my other Junk

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kenb Part of things Posts: 604	Small show but interesting vehicles.kenb @kenb
	Jun 11, 2012 15:56:10 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jun 11, 2012 15:27:44 GMT IDY said: Jun 11, 2012 14:59:03 GMT kenb said: The airfield itself is celebrating 40 years of operation, but more interestingly it is next door to the site of what was probably the largest collection of classic cars in the country. Sadly now all gone bar a handful of vehicles. www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2716044/Any-old-iron-More-like-car-lovers-gold.html# I remember visiting that yard (probably a year or so before it closed), was fascinating to walk round. I was looking for turbos, John (?) kept trying to flog me jag engines - he had a barn full of them. I got chatting to him and he showed me round his mad daily Google could only find me this image of it According to the site I have pinched the pic from it is a 1972 Leyland FG350 chassis with a Commer TS3 two-stroke diesel engine Interesting looking show edit - in fact is that it hiding in the back of this pic? Yes it was there. Not sure if he still owns it or not though. Still see the car at plenty of shows with its OIL number plate.


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chairchild Posted a lot Posts: 1,884	Small show but interesting vehicles.chairchild @chairchild
	Jun 11, 2012 17:45:36 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jun 11, 2012 15:31:07 GMT Dez said: I feel inadiquate I don't own a vehicle with its own vice and oxy equipment on-board. You must rectify this..... Alternator-based TIG welder on the project?
	Aug 17, 2012 11:05:42 GMT waveman1500 said: You're like a crazy backyard genius!

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Robinxr4i Posted hell of a lot I crash Sierra Posts: 7,775 Club RR Member Number: 143	Small show but interesting vehicles.Robinxr4i @robinxr4i Club Retro Rides Member 143
	Jun 11, 2012 17:52:11 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Most excellent photos! I would love to see a vice becoming the next "scene" modification. I can see it now slammed and stanced Corsa C complete with bonnet bra and vice.
	Sierra - here we go again! May 2, 2024 12:17:28 GMT WillCarter said: He has an illness, it's not his fault.

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kenb Part of things Posts: 604	Small show but interesting vehicles.kenb @kenb
	Jun 11, 2012 18:23:29 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	It was funny as I've seen lorry mounted vices before but usually on the sides behind cabs etc, but two lorries at this small show had bumper mounted vices. I'll fit one to my Transit!!


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Rich606 South West Posts: 3,635	Small show but interesting vehicles.Rich606 @rich606
	Jun 11, 2012 18:41:58 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jun 11, 2012 18:23:29 GMT kenb said: It was funny as I've seen lorry mounted vices before but usually on the sides behind cabs etc, but two lorries at this small show had bumper mounted vices. I'll fit one to my Transit!! I've seen farmers around here with them mounted on their ATVs, they call them vice quads... ...I'll get my coat I love this. Austin 7-based?
	1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... Mar 19, 2014 14:56:27 GMT reliantreviver said: the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.

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Deleted Posts: 0	Small show but interesting vehicles.Deleted @Deleted
	Jun 11, 2012 18:50:59 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	At first I wondered why they had vices on their bumpers, then I wondered why I don't.


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Seth South East MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi Posts: 15,513	Small show but interesting vehicles.Seth @seth
	Jun 11, 2012 18:56:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jun 11, 2012 18:41:58 GMT Rich606 said: I love this. Austin 7-based? Looks bigger than that to me. A top place to wander about for a while I bet. Also now want a vehicle that would suit its own vice.
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Rich606 South West Posts: 3,635	Small show but interesting vehicles.Rich606 @rich606
	Jun 11, 2012 19:05:12 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Actually I feel like a bit of a dumbarse now asking a question about a car that has a url printed on the bonnet Here is an advert for the car in question, should anyone have £12,500 to spare Really attractively proportioned.
	1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... Mar 19, 2014 14:56:27 GMT reliantreviver said: the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.

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Smiler Posted a lot I no longer own anything FWD! Or with less than 6 cylinders, or 2.5ltrs! :) Posts: 2,492	Small show but interesting vehicles.Smiler @smiler
	Jun 11, 2012 19:20:01 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jun 11, 2012 17:52:11 GMT Robinxr4i said: Most excellent photos! I would love to see a vice becoming the next "scene" modification. I can see it now slammed and stanced Corsa C complete with bonnet bra and vice. I modified a Ford Orion back in '98 by attaching a vice to it! It was a parts donor and I welded the vice onto the boot lid as I needed to use it but didn't have a work bench to bolt it onto. Sadly I neglected to take a photo of it.
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PHUQ Part of things Posts: 859	Small show but interesting vehicles.PHUQ @phuq
	Jun 11, 2012 19:32:22 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Scammell Mountaineer: quite a lot of want. Bedford RL Recovery: pretty large quantities of want. Mentalist Commer 2-stroke engined, ambulance chassis'd open bodied thingy: Pure, unadulterated want. You weren't wrong, that's a fantastic selection of motors for a small show.
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	Jun 11, 2012 19:52:14 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	100% fopr a bumper mounted vice


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Seth South East MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi Posts: 15,513	Small show but interesting vehicles.Seth @seth
	Jun 11, 2012 20:05:40 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jun 11, 2012 19:05:12 GMT Rich606 said: Actually I feel like a bit of a dumbarse now asking a question about a car that has a url printed on the bonnet Here is an advert for the car in question, should anyone have £12,500 to spare Really attractively proportioned. *Eats hat.
	Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.

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jrevillug Posted a lot Posts: 3,520	Small show but interesting vehicles.jrevillug @jrevillug
	Jun 11, 2012 21:45:15 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Seven special, Sunbeam - nom. Bedford tow-truck with gas axe and vice - nom nom. That Leyland chassis, Commer TS3-engined open thing - all the want.
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waveman1500 Posted a lot Posts: 3,743	Small show but interesting vehicles.waveman1500 @waveman1500
	Jun 12, 2012 4:10:15 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	What's the go with this beast? Looks like a very large truck that has been made into a car. It's fantastic.
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kenb Part of things Posts: 604	Small show but interesting vehicles.kenb @kenb
	Jun 12, 2012 10:35:44 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Ah ha Can anyone identify what make the engine is though? Apparently he had two lorries(a clue). One got wrecked or broken or something, he used the engine out of it and put it into this. Far too much time on his hands!!
	Last Edit: Jun 12, 2012 10:37:14 GMT by kenb

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waveman1500 Posted a lot Posts: 3,743	Small show but interesting vehicles.waveman1500 @waveman1500
	Jun 12, 2012 11:26:10 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Hmm, 84 gallon diesel tank capacity! That would be cheap to fill up then! Is the engine a Cummins?
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